ATHENS, April 29 (Reuters) – Greece said on Wednesday it had agreed with Qatar to bolster cooperation in areas including trade, energy and defence, extending a deal first struck in 2024. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani discussed bilateral ties and investment opportunities in Greek infrastructure, energy and…
ATHENS, April 28 (Reuters) – Five people were wounded in two separate shooting attacks in Athens carried out by an elderly gunman who remained at large, police and local media reported on Tuesday. The suspect, an 89‑year‑old man, opened fire with a shotgun at a branch of Greece’s EFKA social security agency, wounding an employee…
Hong Kong’s food safety watchdog has urged people with gluten allergies not to eat a Marks & Spencer yoghurt product after the allergen was found but not declared on the label. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) said on Monday night it was investigating the omission of gluten from the ingredients list of the supermarket’s…
Some Hong Kong residents planning to flee the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with their pets because of conflict in the Middle East are considering flying to other countries rather than returning home due to the city’s 120-day quarantine requirement for cats and dogs. The pet owners called on authorities to relax the “excessive” quarantine rules…
Minna Honkanen could not have anticipated the seismic events that would grip Hong Kong after she decided to try her luck there in early 2019. Two months after she arrived, unprecedented social unrest engulfed the city, followed immediately by the coronavirus pandemic, which shut borders and restricted travel for more than two years. Least of…
WSJ Published on: Dec 09, 2025 10:31 am IST The tragedy isn’t merely national decline, strained pensions or a shrinking labor force. It is the intimate, human loss, writes Bethany Mandel. Economic charts can tell us birthrates are collapsing, but they can’t tell us what that actually feels like. I was recently in Greece with…
China has accused the United States of trying to undermine its relations with Greece after the US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle urged Athens to sell the Chinese-operated port of Piraeus. Guilfoyle called the presence of China’s state-owned shipping giant Cosco at the port in the south of Greece “unfortunate”, in an interview last week with Greek…
“Ukraine gains direct access to diversified and reliable energy sources, while Greece becomes a hub for supplying Central and Eastern Europe with American liquefied natural gas,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said. Nov 16 3 mins read Source link
Greece’s parliament on Thursday approved a government-backed bill allowing people to work 13-hour days, despite fierce objections from trade unions and opposition parties. Unions have staged two general strikes against the reform this month — the latest on Tuesday — with thousands of workers protesting against a measure “worthy of the Middle Ages”, according to…
Home » CHINA TRAVEL NEWS » Now, Italy Joins Germany, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, China, Georgia, Croatia and Other Countries Propel Greece Record-Breaking October 2025 Tourism Surge Published on October 16, 2025 Italy has joined a growing list of countries, including Germany, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, China, Georgia, Croatia, and several emerging markets,…